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Buffy the Vampire Slayer + tumblr text posts

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the phrase “earn a living” is so vile and disgusting and evil

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reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

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BILL WATTERSON ‘A cartoonist’s advice’

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Mental Crop Rotation

When farmers grow the same crop too many years in a row, it can leave their soil depleted of minerals and other nutrients that are vital to the health of their fields.

To avoid this, farmers will often alternate the crops that they grow because some plants will use up different minerals (such as nitrogen) while other plants replenish those minerals. This process is known as “crop rotation.”

So the next time you find that you need to step away from a project to work on something else for a while, don’t beat yourself up for “quitting” that project. Give yourself permission to practice “mental crop rotation” to maintain a healthy brain field.

Because I’ve found that when that unnecessary guilt and pressure are removed from the process, a good mental crop rotation can help you feel more energized and invigorated than ever once you’re ready to rotate back to that project.

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in case anyone else needs to hear this it’s ok to be more serious. i don’t just mean ‘it’s ok to be serious sometimes’ i mean in general. not everyone has to be funny. it doesn’t have to mean you’re sad or unlikeable. you can just be serious and genuine most of the time and that’s great. i personally think that we’re too focused on ‘funny’ as the primary carrier of likeability right now. i often feel starved for serious conversation, for serious spaces, for a feeling of gravity. you don’t have make good jokes to give people a good time. i say, goof only as the spirit moves you, & don’t worry about it. 

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“You don’t do the unthinkable to get something you want. You do it to get back what you lost.”

- Even Though I Knew The End by CL Polk

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we've all gone through friendless periods in our lives. don't fall into the trap of thinking there's something intrinsically wrong with you - that is a) untrue and b) a belief that will make your isolation grow and cause feelings of worthlessness that will prevent you from accepting people into your life because you feel like you're not deserving of their friendship

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hi, thanks for all the tech tips! I hope this isn’t a silly question, but how are password managers secure? Isn’t there a risk of a data breach there?

Each individual account managed through a password management company is (or should be in any respectable product) individually encrypted.

When we see big breaches like the 2013 tumblr leak or similar leaks over the years, typically what you're seeing is either

A) One large collection of information that was stored under the same encryption umbrella and someone was able to use illicit credentials or some other nefarious method to access that information (very bad) or

B) Information that was never encrypted in the first place and was stored in plaintext (much, much worse).

With a good password manager any data that the company has is encrypted and your individual vault is encrypted separately using a key that the company doesn't have access to.

So imagine that you walk into a room and the floor is covered in dominoes arranged in a pattern. With no encryption (scenario B), imagine that the door is unlocked and you can simply open the door and knock over all the dominoes.

With one big encrypted bucket (scenario A), what happens is if you are able to open the main door, you can knock over all the dominoes but it takes some effort to get the door open.

With individually encrypted vaults you need to open the main door, then you see thousands and thousands of tiny safes, each with a combination that you need to guess to access the dominoes inside to knock them over. Each safe has a code that will take somewhere between two years and ten thousand years to guess, depending on the computer doing the guessing, and you can customize your safe to make it harder to guess the combination.

Good encryption is extremely secure, and a lot of the breaches that we see aren't failures of encryption, they are failures of other parts of the system security. What you are typically seeing with big breaches is either someone didn't bother to encrypt anything, or someone fucked up in a big way and people who weren't supposed to gain access were able to gain access.

But what you almost never see is someone genuinely cracking encryption of a secure system.

Password managers generally speaking have a better eye toward security than a lot of other products, and open source password managers tend to be rigorously tested by some tremendously intelligent and tremendously paranoid people who are VERY invested in security.

If you have a Bitwarden account (just using it as the example because it's my favorite and it's what I recommend), Bitwarden actually *can't* access your account. If you forget your password, that's it. You're locked out (this is why it's important to make a good password hint and to make your password manager password both complex AND memorable). They can't recover it for you because they simply do not have access to that data; it is encrypted and they can't crack the encryption and they don't have your key (they have a hash of your key, which means they can recognize your key but they can't reverse engineer it - it's complicated, look up cryptographic hashing, I'm bad at explaining it). So if anyone breaches that system, they ALSO don't have access to your vault or to your key and in order to access your passwords would need to brute force your main password by guessing until they landed on the correct one. If you have a sufficiently long and complex password, that is going to be so extremely difficult that it might as well be impossible.

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the fact that apps can just add a new notification category with the exact same name as another one in order to deliver advertisements to your push notifications makes me want to kill someone. I very meticulously go into the notification settings of every app that I install on my phone to turn off notifications that aren't directly related to my desired functionality of the app. I do not want your bullshit app to advertise to me. go fuck yourself

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glad that im not popular enough to have an evil shadow version of my blog that exists just to make contradictions on my posts

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NA Elpis Map Night!!

it's been a while since I've hosted a map party so I'm putting one together! please feel free to come and go as you please, bringing a map is encouraged but not required. this event is open to everyone, let's get us some gil and have a good time!

When: Saturday Jan. 27th @ 9 PM EST AND Sunday Jan. 28th @ 8 PM EST

Where: Aether Midgardsormr, send me a /tell @ Nehra Mewrilah

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My personal Google replacement apps/services

Because what they are really selling is you, to advertisers. Which means the information they're showing to you, and the information you're storing on their services benefits paying advertisers more than it benefits you.

I know there are probably others out there, and lots of people probably know about these already but these are the ones that have worked for me, personally. If you want to switch away from google, try these out.

Search: Kagi. Yes, I spend $10 a month on this. Yes, it's worth it for ACTUAL USEFUL SEARCH RESULTS. That I can trust aren't at the top of the search because they paid money to the search company. Without adds. With listicles in their their own little section.

Mail & Calendar: Proton Mail and Calendar. Free/paid upgrade. Works pretty similar to google mail and calendar, more limited unless you pay, but the paid accounts are pretty cheap, and the free versions are 100% useable. They do not store your encryption code/password, so they cannot look at your information. Plus if they start saving money on how a particular service runs, THEY LOWER PRICES. Love that.

Maps: Magic Earth. Free on android (dunno about iPhone). Gives you a lot more information on the map than google maps. Perfectly good navigation while driving. Just picked this one up yesterday, but I'm really loving it so far.

#google replacement #google #kagi #kagi search #proton mail #app recommendations #down with google #biased systems

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Work today is me locked alone in a room with a box of girl scout peanut butter patties with minimal actual work to do.

The peanut butter patties are losing.

#girl scout cookies #work #im bored